Rick Steves @ricksteves.bsky.social Guidebook author, TV & radio host, business owner, Lutheran, and NORML Board Member. Fanatically positive and militantly optimistic.
Edward Perez @eddieperez.bsky.social Ex-Twitter director for civic integrity. Media commentary & analysis; social media, election admin & voting tech. Lapsed poli-sci academic. Likes: democracy, facts.
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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social 🌐Studies influence, propaganda, platform design@Georgetown
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📕Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies Into Reality (invisiblerulers.com)
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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social Historian - Democracy and Its Discontents - Newsletter: Democracy Americana https://democracyamericana.com (also available in German: https://steady.page/de/demokratie-americana/posts) - Website: https://www.thomaszimmer.online/
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social Dartmouth political scientist and Bright Line Watch co-director. Previously Upshot NYT / CJR contributor, Spinsanity co-founder, All the President's Spin co-author.
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social Let's see... 39 years teaching journalism at NYU. A critic who tries to be useful. PressThink: the name of my subject and my site. My book: "What Are Journalists For?" (1999, Yale University Press)
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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social Explaining anti-democratic rhetorical tricks. Award winning #teamrhetoric professor & author. Very earnest. Democracy cheerleader. Views represent my academic research, not my university. I post things on substack: https://jennifermercieca.substack.com/
Knight First Amendment Institute @knightcolumbia.org The Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University defends the freedoms of speech & the press in the digital age through strategic litigation, research, policy advocacy, and public education.
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Daniel Ziblatt @dziblatt.bsky.social Eaton Professor of Government & Director, Center for European Studies @Harvard/ leads research group at WZB Berlin/author of 'Tyranny of the Minority', 'How Democracies Die', & 'Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy.'
Justin Levitt @justinlevitt.bsky.social If you're eligible & want to vote, making sure you can, it's meaningful, and it sticks. Pro-democracy, pro-republic. He/his. Loyola law prof, former WH, former DOJ, former Natl Voter Protection Dir, forever NJDevils fan
Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social Teaches US History at Willamette Univ. Working on a book about the long history of the US Right. https://rightlandia.ghost.io/
Nick Martin @nick-martin.bsky.social I run The Informant, a publication covering hate and extremism in the US. Returning soon. Living with Long Covid. Profile photo by Victor G Jeffreys II.
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz Professor, researcher, author. Prez, Assoc of Internet Researchers (AOIR), gay lady into synths, computers, music, film.
Wrote a book called Behind the Screen: Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media (YUP 19), and Meta stole it to train its LLM.
Craig Silverman @craigsilverman.bsky.social Cofounder of https://indicator.media, your essential guide to understanding and investigating digital deception. Sign up for free! Investigative journalist and OSINT trainer.
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social https://www.youtube.com/@RGoodLaw
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Just Security @justsecurity.org Forum on law, rights, and security. Editorial Board includes professors, top civil society attorneys, former senior government officials.
Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social Temerty Professor of Modern European History, Munk School, University of Toronto; Permanent Fellow, IWM Vienna; Emeritus Levin Professor, Yale. Author of "On Freedom," "On Tyranny," "Our Malady," "Road to Unfreedom," "Black Earth," and "Bloodlands"
Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social Historian; Author, NYT Bestseller Strongmen; Publisher, Lucid, a Substack newsletter on authoritarianism and threats to democracy; Film & TV Consultant
Anand Giridharadas @anandwrites.bsky.social Writer.
Nora Benavidez @attorneynora.bsky.social Civil Rights & Free Speech Attorney. Disinformation & AI Expert. Nonfiction Author.
Now: Senior Counsel @freepress | 2026 Bellagio Residency Fellow @rockefeller (writing a book) | Board of Directors @benandjerrys
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social Civil rights lawyer; democracy warrior, dedicated to racial justice & equality. Fmr President & Director-Counsel, NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc.
Michael Harriot @michaelharriot.bsky.social Journalist, writer, former member of the Six Heartbeats. Championship-level spades player. ContrabandCamp.com founder. Author of NY Times bestseller: Black AF History: The Unwhitewashed Story of America.
Yaël Eisenstat @yaeleisenstat.bsky.social Been called alarmist, Cassandra & “someone with the resume of a 70 yr old man”. Pro-dog & pro-democracy. Working on tech accountability to safeguard democracy in the digital age at Cybersafety Research Center (NYU).
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Jen Fifield @jenafifield.bsky.social ProPublica reporter covering voting, elections and democracy. Phoenix native. Mom of two. Send tips: In chat or on Signal: jenafifield.01
Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social Writer, journalist, filmmaker, professor. Pro-democracy advocate: Not capitulating. Author of Lee Harvey Oswald book, The Gunman & His Mother. Writing/publishing America, America on politics and society: America.substack.com
Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social @theunpopulist.net
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Chris Yogerst @chrisyogerst.com Writer, author, media historian.
Columns @ The Hollywood Reporter, LA Times
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Books: The Warner Brothers; Hollywood Hates Hitler…
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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social Author, filmmaker, book dealer. New York and Dallas. Bookstore: mzs.press. RogerEbert.com editor-at-large. Next book: Jack Nicholson: Leading Man
Jason Bailey @jasondashbailey.com Keep circulating the tapes.
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social Writer, husband, etc. Books: Pictures at a Revolution (2008), Five Came Back (2014), Mike Nichols: A Life (2021), Our Way (coming in fall 2027). Lately: T, New York, etc. Past: EW, Grantland, younger. I am not Mark Hamill so I cannot "stick to acting."
Dana Stevens @thehighsign.bsky.social Film critic at Slate; co-host of the Slate Culture Gabfest podcast; repped by the Cheney Agency; member NYFCC. Camera Man, my book on Buster Keaton, is out: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Camera-Man/Dana-Stevens/9781501134203
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Glenn Kenny @glennkenny.bsky.social Critic and author and occasional cut-up. Just a soul whose intentions are good. Books include "The World is Yours: The Story of 'Scarface'" and "Made Men: The Story of 'Goodfellas'.”
🏳️🌈 Ms. Marya E. Gates 🦩 @oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social ✍️ RogerEbert, Indiewire, Letterboxd, etc. | 📧 maryag7@gmail.com | CFCA | creator #Noirvember #AYearWithWomen | Programmer, Must-Watch Indies @ FACETS Chicago | buy my book CINEMA HER WAY out now from Rizzoli | Free 🇵🇸| https://maryaegates.com/cinemaherway/
Farran Smith Nehme 🇱🇧 @selfstyledsiren.bsky.social Film critic; NSFC, NYFCC. Bylines at Criterion, Sight & Sound, Noir City, my own Substack, and wherever fine film geeks are found.
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Peter Labuza @labuzamovies.com Union Researcher. Historian/Scholar of media industries law. Maker of delicious foods, baseball enjoyer (Twins Daily / DiamonCentric / Baseball Prospectus contributor) plabuza @ gmail.
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Pamela Hutchinson @pamhutch.bsky.social Author, critic, historian | 🖋 Guardian S&S BBC Criterion Empire | 📕 The Curse of Queen Kelly | 📕 The Red Shoes | 📕 Pandora’s Box | ✉️ Weekly Film Bulletin | 💻 silentlondon.co.uk | https://linktr.ee/PamHutch | she/her
Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social Political Economy of Media Theory; Director, RPTF, Library of Congress NRPB; Director, New Terrain at Sundance; Assoc Prof, University of Colorado
Kyle Stevens @cinementalist.bsky.social Another film queer. Professor. Book on Mike Nichols. Ed. of The Oxford Handbook of Film Theory. Tons of essays. Boston. 
Tomris Laffly @tomilaffly.bsky.social Film Writer/Critic | ✍🏼 Variety, RogerEbert.com, Vanity Fair, TIME, W Mag, Filmmaker Mag etc. | NYFCC member | 2026 Mill Valley Film Fest Programmer | Dog lover… ♥️
Jen Johans @filmintuition.bsky.social 3x nat'l award-winning writer, film critic, & historian @ http://FilmIntuition.com, Watch With Jen™ pod host, & author behind The Veronica Mars Book Kickstarter. Repped by Farley Chase.
Kristen Lopez @kristenklopez.bsky.social Journalist for hire. EIC The Film Maven. Bylines @latimes @goldenglobes @variety Author BUT HAVE YOU READ THE BOOK ROMANCE EDITION. Upcoming: WELCOME BOILS AND GHOULS (2027). ♿️ Repped by Falkin Literary.
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Silent Beauties @silentbeauties.bsky.social Blogger. Silent films. Art heals. History is a tool to improve the future and our decision making in the present time. Trying to make a difference.
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Jill Blake @biscuitkitten.bsky.social Writer for hire | Baseball fan | Letterman-type | “One vulgar broad” | Protect trans kids | FUCK ICE | she/her
ajillblake.substack.com
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Courtney Howard @lulamaybelle.bsky.social 🍅meter-approved film critic/ journo.
Member: LA Film Critics Association, Critics Choice Association
Writer: Variety, FreshFiction.tv.
Never met a dachshund I haven’t liked.
Jeremy Dauber @jeremydauber.bsky.social Professor at Columbia; writer of books; poster of thoughts about movies, books, comics, music, other stuff. Stoker-nominated author of AMERICAN SCARY; PRESS 1 FOR INVASION for middle-graders from Simon and Schuster OUT NOW!
Danielle Solzman 🗽🇺🇲✡️🕎🟦🎥 @solzyatthemovies.com Transgender. Solzy at the Movies. The Solzy Report. Dugout Dirt. Membership: Critics Choice, Galeca, AWFJ, OAFFC, OFCS, OFTA. Tomatometer, IBWAA. MPA accredited. http://www.solzyatthemovies.com
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Brian Saur @bobfreelander.bsky.social Co-host of New Beverly’s Pure Cinema Podcast.
https://pca.st/podcast/1d88b970-d2b6-0134-ebcf-4114446340cb
https://thenewbev.com/blog/category/podcasts/
Runs Just The Discs Podcast + YouTube.
Letterboxd adherent: https://letterboxd.com/rupertpupkin/
Will McKinley @willmckinley.bsky.social I wrote Sony's getTV blog for 6 years, created Game Show Network's blog, was an arts reporter for NYC weekly The Villager, and have contributed to Slate, 4 books, and many blogs and podcasts. Currently digital marketing for NYC nonprofit New Plaza Cinema.
Michael Schulman @michaelschulman.bsky.social Staff writer at The New Yorker. Author of "Her Again: Becoming Meryl Streep" and "Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears." www.michael-schulman.com
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Raquel Stecher @raquelstecher.bsky.social Film Historian and Critic. Writer for TCM. Quelle Movies, Out of the Past and #CineHistorians. Passionate about cinema.
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Alyssa S. @drsepinwall.bsky.social Writer. Prof. Archive Stan. Lover of Music and Film. 🇭🇹🇫🇷🎮🎬🗃️ Current project: Antiracist writers & the House Un-American Activities Committee. Views expressed through this account represent my own opinions and not my employer's.
Jason Mittell @jmittell.bsky.social Media studies professor at Middlebury College; video essayist & author of videographic book on Breaking Bad; author of written books on TV, narrative theory, etc.; journal manager of @intransition.bsky.social . [he/him] https://linktr.ee/jmittell
Maggie Hennefeld @hennefem.bsky.social Film professor & Léontine enthusiast! Author of DEATH BY LAUGHTER: Female Hysteria and Early Cinema (Columbia UP, 2024) and co-curator of CINEMA'S FIRST NASTY WOMEN (Kino Lorber, 2022). https://cup.columbia.edu/book/death-by-laughter/9780231559812
Tanya Goldman @tanyagoldman.bsky.social cinema studies | media distribution + access | documentary | nontheatrical film | useful media | feminist media history | she/her
https://www.tanyagoldmanphd.com
Alisa Perren @aperren.bsky.social Media studies prof. Director of Industry Relations for the Radio-Television-Film Department at UT-Austin. Opinions are my own.
Noah Gittell @noahgittell.bsky.social Troubador. Former film critic, author, lobbyist, bartender. Was once seen in NYT, The Atlantic, The Guardian. Now seen at open mic night, possibly in your town.
Citizen Screen @citizenscreen.bsky.social Registrar by day, movie watcher by night. #ClassicMovies Blogger #Películas She/Her #ClassicHollywood #BanAssaultWeapons #TCMParty original
Katherine Groo @katherinegroo.bsky.social Associate Prof of Film and Media Studies. Author of Bad Film Histories. Writing a book about reference. Views my own. Most get deleted.
Katie Bird @arthousedirectr.bsky.social Video Essayist, Independent Film Scholar, Lapsed Academic. Hollywood Film Labor and Film History.
Jessica Pickens @hollywoodcomet.bsky.social Owner of Comet Over Hollywood since 2009. Gidgetologist. Dynasty fan. Chad & Jeremy enthusiast.
Justin Rawlins @justinrawlins.bsky.social Prof Media/Film | Author: Imagining the Method http://bit.ly/43QVOa4 | Research: acting, celebrity, screen histories, Arctic media | he/him
Kliph Nesteroff @classicshowbiz.bsky.social I write books. You consider reading them. “Sorry, We’re Funny,” a History of Canadian Comedy, will be released in late 2026.
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/777133/sorry-were-funny-by-kliph-nesteroff/
Dr. Sheri Chinen Biesen @sheribiesen.bsky.social Cinema Professor. Film History. Jazz. Books: Through a Noir Lens: Adapting Film Noir Visual Style. Blackout: World War II & Origins of Film Noir. Film Censorship. Music in the Shadows📚📽️🎷
https://noirbooks.blogspot.com
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Seth Abramovitch @sethabramovitch.bsky.social Senior Writer at The Hollywood Reporter since 2012. Host of It Happened in Hollywood Podcast. LA Press Club 2026 Entertainment Journalist of the Year.
Kellee aka IrishJayhawk66 @kelleepratt.bsky.social #ClassicFilm Teacher, #TCMParty original, #TCM Ambassador, Outspoken & Freckled in the Sunflower State #RockChalk #MasterGardener kelleepratt.com
Derek Long @dereklong08.bsky.social Associate Professor of Media and Cinema Studies @UIUC; Author of PLAYING THE PERCENTAGES: HOW FILM DISTRIBUTION MADE THE HOLLYWOOD STUDIO SYSTEM (University of Texas Press, 2024)
Donna Hill 💙🇺🇸🐈⬛🎬 @rudyfan.bsky.social Author Rudolph Valentino the Silent Idol, decent cook, terrible housekeeper, currently researching Dorothy Gish, old movies are my jam, currently craving a good hot dog. William H. Powell is my adorable cat and I share pics of him.
Scott McGee--not a fascist @johnscottmcgee.bsky.social "My boy, we are pilgrims in an unholy land."
TCM Sen. Dir. of Orig. Programming (and formerly FilmStruck...)
Author of DANGER ON THE SILVER SCREEN.
My dream dinner party: Lincoln, Will Rogers and Bugs Bunny.
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Kelli Marshall @kellimarshall.bsky.social Chicago and movies, one tour at a time: chicagomovietours.com. Ph.D. Transplant from Louisiana. Hardcore Gene Kelly fan.
Ashley R. Smith-Campbell @ashleyrsmith.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Screen Studies at Ithaca College | PhD in Screen Cultures from Northwestern | Writing on horror, culture, race, and gender | True crime & media trash lover | Opinions are mine | Formerly @thehorrorfemme on Twitter
Nikki @dorvid4.bsky.social Bed person not bad person.
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Luci Marzola @lucimarz.bsky.social Hollywood historian. Technology, media industries, labor, craft. Program Coordinator of Cinema and Media Studies@ USC. Hollywood Unions (Rutgers, 2025), Engineering Hollywood (Oxford, 2021)
Daniel S. Levine @dsl89.bsky.social Staff Editor at PEOPLE.com. Lover of Star Wars, movies, music and comics. MA native. Opinions are my own and do not represent the views of PEOPLE he/him